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Ha died in 174S. The works of Danchet were publilhed 
• colleTively in 1751, in 4 vols. ismo. 
DAN'CING, part. Moving in concert, regulated by 
mulic, moving brifkly, putting into a fprightly motion. 
DANCING, f. [from the part.'] The a< 5 t or art of 
moving in concert regulated by mulic. 
DAN'CING, adj. Fit for a dancer : 
Our mother, unadvis’d, 
Gave you a dancing rapier by your fide. Titus Andronicus. 
DAN'CING-GIRL. See the article Hindoostan. 
DAN'CINGMASTER, f. One who teaches the art 
dancing.—The apes were taught their apes tricks by a 
dancingmafter. VEJlrangc. —The legs of a dancinginajier, 
and the fingers of a mufician, fall, as it were, naturally, 
without thought or pains, into regular and admirable 
motions. Locke. 
DAN'CINGSCHOOL,/. The fchool where the art 
of dancing is taught.—A certain Egyptian king endowed 
a dancingfchool for the inftitution of apes of quality. L'E- 
Jlrange. 
They bid us to the Englilh dancingfc/tools, 
And teach lavoltas high, and fwift courantos ; 
Saying our grace is only in our heels. Shakefpcare. 
DAN'D A, a river of Africa, in the kingdom of Congo. 
DAN'DAR, a drear of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Guzerat, on the banks of the Puddar, fouth-weft of Ou- 
dipour. 
DAN'DELION, f. \_dcht de lion, lion’s tooth, Fr.] The 
name of a plant. See Leontadon. 
For cowflips fweet, let dandelions fpread; 
For Blouzelinda, blithfome maid, is dead ! Gay. 
DANDI'NI (Pietro), an eminent painter, born at Flo¬ 
rence in 1646, received his firft inltruCtions from Valero 
Spada, who excelled in fmall drawings with a pen. Whilft 
lie was under the care of that artift, he gave Inch high 
proofs of genius, that he was then placed with his uncle 
Vicencio Dandini, a mailer of great reputation in Italy, 
who had been bred up under Pietro da Cortona, lie 
afterwards travelled through mod: of the cities of Italy, 
Undying the works of thofe who were moll diftinguifhed ; 
and refided for a long time at Venice, where he copied 
the paintings of Titian, Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronefe. 
He next vilited Parma and Modena, to defign the works 
of Correggio ; omitting no opportunity that might contri¬ 
bute to improve his hand or his judgment. When he 
returned to Florence, the grand duke Cofmo III. the 
grand duchefs Victoria, and the prince Ferdinand, kept 
him perpetually employed, in frefco painting as well as 
in oil; his fubjedls being taken not only from facred or 
fabulous hiftory, but from his own invention and fancy. 
He died in 1712. With a force and elegance, equal to 
his fubjedts of hiftory, he painted portraits, landfcapes, 
architetlure, flowers, fruit, battles, animals of all kinds, 
and fea-pieces ; proving himfelf an univerfal artift, and 
excellent in every thing he undertook. He had a fon, 
Odlavio, who proved not inferior to him in any branch 
of his profdlion, and was an honour to his family and 
his country. 
DANDI'NI {Caeftire), hiftory painter, born at Flo¬ 
rence, was the elder brother and firft inftrudtor of Vin- 
centio Dandini, the uncle of Pietro. This mafter had 
fucceftively ftudied as a aifciple with Cavalier Curradi, 
Paflignano, and Chriftofano Allori; from whom he ac¬ 
quired a very pleafing manner of defigning and colour¬ 
ing. He was extremely corredt in his drawing, and 
finifhed his pidtures highly. Several noble altar-pieces 
in the churches of Florence are of his hand ; and one, 
which is in the chapel PAnnonciata, is particularly ad¬ 
mired. 
DANDI'NI (Jerome), a learned Italian jefuit, born 
at Cefena about the year 1551. His abilities and ac¬ 
quirements occafioned his being appointed to many ho¬ 
nourable offices in the’fociety. For he- taught philofo- 
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phy at Paris and Perugia, and divinity at Padua ; he 
was rector of the colleges of Ferrara, Forli, Bologna, 
Parma, and Milan; vifitor in the provinces of Venice, 
Touloufe, and Guienne; and provincial in Poland and 
in the Milanefe. In 1596, pope Clement VIII. appomted 
him his nuncio to the Maronites, inhabiting the mounts 
Libanus and Antilibanus, among whom he appears to 
have conducted himfelf with great prudence and tem¬ 
per, but not fo as to efcape impofitioris. Some years af¬ 
ter his death, an account which he drew up of his tra¬ 
vels into the eaft was publilhed at Cefena, intitled, Mif- 
fione Apoflolica al Patriarca e Maroniti del Monte Libano ; ot 
which father Simon publilhed a French tranflation at 
Paris, in 1675, with the omiftion of father Dandini’s 
journey to Jerufalem, and the addition of important re¬ 
marks and obfervations by the editor. Dandini died at 
Forli, in 1634, at a very advanced age. He was the au¬ 
thor of Commentaries on the three Books of Ariftotlc, 
de Anima, which lie publilhed at Paris, in 1611, tolio ; 
arid of a treatife in morals, intitied, Ethica,facra, hoc eft 
de Virtutibus & Vitiis, which was printed at Cefena, in 1651, 
folio, and is highly praifed by father Simon. 
DAN'DIPRAT,_/i [ dandin , Fr.] A little fellow ; an 
urchin ; a word tiled fometimes in fondnefs, fometimes 
in contempt. 
To DAN'DI.E, v. a. [dandelcn, Dut. ] To (hake a child 
on the knee, or in the hands, to pleafe and quiet him.— 
Motion occalions deep, as we find by the common tile of 
rocking froward children in cradles, or dandling them in 
their nurfe’s arms. Temple .—Then lhu.ll ye fuck, and'fhali 
be born upon Iter lides, and be dandled upon her knees, 
IJ'aiah. 
Sporting the lion ramp’d, and in his paw 
Dandled the kid. Milton. 
To fondle ; to treat like a child.—~They have put me 
on a filk gown, and a gaudy fool’s cap ; I am alhamed 
to be dandled thus, and cannot look in the glafs without 
blufliing, to fee myfelf turned into fuch a. little pretty 
mafter. Addijon. —To delay; to procraftinate ; to protrabt 
by trifles : not in ufe. —Captains do fo dandle their doings, 
and dally in their fervices, as if they would not have the 
enemy fubdued. Spenjer. 
DAN'DLER,yi He that dandles or fondles children. 
DAN'DRUFF, J'. [often written dendriff\ from ran, 
the itch, and bp op, fordid, filthy.] Scabs in the head; 
feurf at the roots of the hair. 
DAN'DOI.O (Henry), one of the moft illuftrious of 
the doges of Venice, was chofen to that office in 1192, 
being then of the very advanced age of eighty-four. 
Little is known of the earlier part of his life; but it is 
laid that fifty years before, being amballadpr at Conftan- 
tinople, he maintained the rights of his country with lo 
much fpirit, that the emperor Manuel, perfidioully vio¬ 
lating the laws of nations, caufed a plate of heated brafs 
to be held before his eyes, for the purpofe of blinding 
him. It is added, that his eyes to appearance remained 
as bright as ever, but that very little fight was left. This 
ftory, hov'ever, is treated as a Venetian calumny by Vi 1 - 
lehardouin and other old writers, and D.mdolo’s weak- 
nefs of fight is attributed to a wound. Neither this de¬ 
feat, nor Ills years, impaired his vigour; and the events 
of his government were among the principal caufes of 
the Venetian greatnefs. The republic, at the beginning 
of his adminiftration, tvas engaged in a war with the Pi- 
fans, which the victories of the Venetians brought to a 
favourable termination. The Veronefe were i ike wife 
compelled to make fatisfa£Iion for fome outrages they 
had committed. On the formation of the league for the 
fourth crufade, under Baldwin earl of Flanders, and the 
French barons, application was made to the (late of Ve¬ 
nice for its afliftunce. Dandoio received their deputies 
favourably, and pleaded their caufe before the people 
from the pulpit in St. Mark’s church. A treaty was in 
confequence formed in 1201 upon terms greatly to the ad¬ 
vantage 
